Disparity Buster

Front page of the website
front page of the website with KFC in search bar
search results for KFC
Search results for E
Starbucks detailed GPG data

Inspiration

One of the ideas raised during the hackathon, was how can investors pick and chose companies which uphold their own personal values. So I set out to create a simple to use website which would allow investors to simply enter the name of the company they are considering investing in, and access the gender pay gap data associated with the company.

What it does

Disparity Buster allows anyone to search through a large database of companies, and access each company's gender pay gap data in a simple and easy to use interface.

How we built it

Disparity buster was built using PHP, and the database was built using a simple python script that parsed a CSV file containing gender pay gap data, and then stored the data in a MySQL database.

Challenges we ran into

Unfortunately the original CSV file on the GPG website, had roughly 400 malformed or incomplete sets of data for some companies.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Being the first hackathon I've ever competed in, I am proud to have been able to build the whole project, even though it's quite simple, in less than 24 hours.

What we learned

I learned quite a bit about designing my own user interfaces, even though it doesn't look great now, it looks a lot better then when I started.

What's next for Disparity Buster

As other countries come on board with the idea of making GPG data publicly available, disparity buster will work on integrated this data into the database. Additionally, fixing the ~400 malformed entries in the UK GPG data csv file and then adding them to the database.